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Karl Marx What is going on in Germany of 1830. It seems that the young academics get bored and annoyed by the dominance of the philosophy of Hegel. For Hegel everything was mind. But when these young ones looked around they saw a competely different world. A world of a rapidly......Read More

Posted on: 2008-05-01 15:12:06 | Rating:

| Views: 48 | Comments: 0 | Tags: Preparing for a revolution....

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Friedrich Engels I dont know how you think about it, but lecturing on Marx and Engels fills me with ambivalent feelings. On the one hand we may say that these two were the philosophers, whose theories had the greatest impact on history. And on the other hand I am tempted to say that......Read More

Posted on: 2008-05-04 14:49:21 | Rating:

| Views: 50 | Comments: 0 | Tags: The theory continued....

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Lenin Lenin a philosopher? His name is easily associated with a lot of things in history, but with philosophy? Yes, after Marx and Engels he is the chief architect of the philosophy of dialectic materialsm. I once suggested the question: is there a relation between personality and the......Read More

Posted on: 2008-05-07 09:40:22 | Rating:

| Views: 40 | Comments: 0 | Tags: So far on marxisme......

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Sigmund Freud It wasn't Freud who "invented" the unconscious. It had been around for a long long time already. But it was him who gave body to it and a place in psychology. In the 50s and 60s of the last century the unconscious was kicked out by the behaviorists and later......Read More

Posted on: 2008-05-07 09:44:38 | Rating:

| Views: 75 | Comments: 3 | Tags: On the couch with..........

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Carl Jung When we were discussing Freud, Hope tried to start a discussion on consciousness. Fortunately (sorry Hope) that discussion didnt take place. We all were already happy enough with the unconscious, and unconscious of the need to discuss consciousness. But he had a big point......Read More

Posted on: 2008-05-09 10:32:14 | Rating:

| Views: 55 | Comments: 0 | Tags: Jung and philosophy....

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John Maynard Keynes Men like Freud, Jung and Keynes arent philosophers pur sang, but they are in the 100 list because their impact on Western society can not be ignored. And in that sense they also play a role in the development of philosophy. In 1921 Keynes published his only......Read More

Posted on: 2008-05-12 17:37:47 | Rating:

| Views: 71 | Comments: 0 | Tags: How to get rich...(^_*)

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Soren Kierkegaard If Kierkegaard would have had access to SL, he definitely would have had at least six or seven alt avatars, all in constant debate with eachother. For that was his method: writing under a lot of pseudonyms. The reason for this was that he didnt wanted to build a......Read More

Posted on: 2008-05-14 06:22:10 | Rating:

| Views: 54 | Comments: 0 | Tags: A leap to faith......

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Friedrich Nietzsche "Suppose the truth is a woman - what? Then, isn't it justified that the philosophers, at least the dogmatists, none of them did understand much about women? That the awful seriousness, the blunt obtrusiveness, with which they approached the truth, were......Read More

Posted on: 2008-05-19 03:41:37 | Rating:

| Views: 90 | Comments: 1 | Tags: The first Lecture on Nietzsche......

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Friedrich Nietzsche The philosophical development of Nietzsche can be divided in three phases: the first phase is the period when he adored Schopenhauer and Wagner and the culture of the old Greek. A mix of Schopenhauerian pessimism and Wagnerian heroism. The Will is for Schopenhauer......Read More

Posted on: 2008-05-19 04:33:27 | Rating:

| Views: 80 | Comments: 1 | Tags: Nietzsche...the beginning...

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Nietzsche and God Before I begin one correction. In the lecture of last Sunday I said that the words Ecce home (See the man) came from the mouth of a Roman soldier standing next to the cross. That was only half correct....these were the words of a Roman indeed, but it were the words of......Read More